Most notably ersatz in The Winter Soldier is superannuated Redford’s first super-villain role. No longer Hollywood’s golden-boy hero — a crown passed on to young Evans –Redford yet flies Tinseltown’s liberal colors, last seen in his disastrous, self-directed The Company You Keep, a dismally obvious apologia for Sixties radicals. That position is also apparent here in his sarcastic portrayal of an autocratic politician who harbors fascist intentions beneath a D.C. wonk’s mask. “To build a better world sometimes means tearing the old one down” he says while viewing the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument from his office window. Redford used to play subtler political games in films like The Candidate, Sneakers, and especially the underrated post-9/11 dialectic Lions for Lambs (his more famous and overrated All the President’s Men and Three Days of the Condor were simply unabashed liberal rabble-rousers).

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But when this rogue politician murmurs his final words – “Hail, Hydra!” — it is embarrassing proof that the Hollywood blockbuster has not only gone political but also gone stupid.

It is the whoriest moment of Redford’s ersatz political career.

Oh, Mr. White, I you! Only he would call All the President's Men "underrated".

__________________"Joss Whedon, Shane Black, Edgar Wright, James Gunn… For as much flack as people give Marvel that's a pretty freaking great group of filmmakers. Kind of feel spoiled."

Oh, Armond. He used to get clicks by being a contrarian and riling people's feathers, but now he gets them by being a subject for movie fans to laugh at. So I guess everybody wins, except his reputation, but he doesn't seem to care much about that as long as the sweet, sweet minor advertising revenue comes rushing in.

Oh, Armond. He used to get clicks by being a contrarian and riling people's feathers, but now he gets them by being a subject for movie fans to laugh at. So I guess everybody wins, except his reputation, but he doesn't seem to care much about that as long as the sweet, sweet minor advertising revenue comes rushing in.

You can totally call me weak for reading and posting it, but his rants entertain me

__________________"Joss Whedon, Shane Black, Edgar Wright, James Gunn… For as much flack as people give Marvel that's a pretty freaking great group of filmmakers. Kind of feel spoiled."

It looks like it has settled to 88 now as I don't think we'll be getting that many more reviews. Not a bad score and actually higher than I thought it would be after the American critics started putting out their reviews.